Bede (–735)

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1. Bede

   Author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People, The Age of Bede, Bede: Ecclesiastical History, Books IV-V. Lives of the Abbots. Letter to Egbert. (Loeb Classical Library No. 248)

2. Anonymous

   Author of Njal's Saga, Egil's Saga, Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories (Penguin Classics)

3. Tacitus

   Author of The Annals, The Agricola and Germania, Tacitus: Histories, Books I-III (Loeb Classical Library No. 111)

4. Saint Augustine

   Author of City Of God, The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love, Augustine: City of God, Volume III, Books 8-11 (Loeb Classical Library No. 413)

5. Einhard

   Author of Two Lives of Charlemagne

6. Geoffrey of Monmouth

   Author of The History of the Kings of Britain

7. R. W. Southern

   Author of The Making of the Middle Ages, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Hist of the Church)

8. Boethius

   Author of The Consolation of Philosophy, The Theological Tractates and the Consolation of Philosophy (Loeb Classical Library No. 74)

9. Anonymous

   Author of Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources

10. Eusebius

    Author of The History of the Church

11. Gregory of Tours

    Author of A History of the Franks

12. Giraldus Cambrensis

    Author of The Journey Through Wales and The Description of Wales, The History and Topography of Ireland

13. Sir Frank Stenton

    Author of Anglo-Saxon England

14. Anonymous

    Author of The Anglo-Saxon chronicle

15. Marcus Tullius Cicero

    Author of Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero: On the Orator: Book 3. On Fate. Stoic Paradoxes. On the Divisions of Oratory: A. Rhetorical Treatises (Loeb Clas, Cicero: The Verrine Orations I: Against Caecilius. Against Verres, Part I; Part II, Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library No

16. Snorri Sturluson

    Author of King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla (Penguin Classics)

17. Margery Kempe

    Author of The Book of Margery Kempe

18. Jean de Joinville

    Author of Chronicles of the Crusades

19. William Langland

    Author of Piers Plowman

20. Leslie Alcock

    Author of Arthur's Britain